Hi,
There are problems to make links to Wikipedias which use non Latin scripts on Wikipedias which are still not in UTF-8 (en:, sv:, da:, etc.). It would be good if they get converted soon.
i.e. Link to [[gu:ગુજરાત]] in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat and http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat
Does someone know how to correct this now?
Thanks, Yann
Yann Forget wrote:
Hi,
There are problems to make links to Wikipedias which use non Latin scripts on Wikipedias which are still not in UTF-8 (en:, sv:, da:, etc.). It would be good if they get converted soon.
i.e. Link to [[gu:ગુજરાત]] in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat and http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat
Does someone know how to correct this now?
You need to use a browser which converts unicode into numeric character entities rather than a series of question marks. For example, Internet Explorer or Mozilla are suitable. If you don't have a system capable of this automatic conversion, you could try one of the many client-side and web-based tools written for this purpose, e.g.
http://users.wpi.edu/~aram/unicode.php
-- Tim Starling
Le Sunday 12 September 2004 16:46, Tim Starling a écrit :
Yann Forget wrote:
Hi,
There are problems to make links to Wikipedias which use non Latin scripts on Wikipedias which are still not in UTF-8 (en:, sv:, da:, etc.). It would be good if they get converted soon.
i.e. Link to [[gu:ગુજરાત]] in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat and http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat
Does someone know how to correct this now?
You need to use a browser which converts unicode into numeric character entities rather than a series of question marks. For example, Internet Explorer or Mozilla are suitable. If you don't have a system capable of this automatic conversion, you could try one of the many client-side and web-based tools written for this purpose, e.g.
I use Konqueror, and yes, it creates [[gu:??????]].
Thanks, that useful.
-- Tim Starling
Yann
On Sunday 12 September 2004 13:07, Yann Forget wrote:
Le Sunday 12 September 2004 16:46, Tim Starling a écrit :
Yann Forget wrote:
Hi,
There are problems to make links to Wikipedias which use non Latin scripts on Wikipedias which are still not in UTF-8 (en:, sv:, da:, etc.). It would be good if they get converted soon.
i.e. Link to [[gu:ગુજરાત]] in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat and http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat
Does someone know how to correct this now?
You need to use a browser which converts unicode into numeric character entities rather than a series of question marks. For example, Internet Explorer or Mozilla are suitable. If you don't have a system capable of this automatic conversion, you could try one of the many client-side and web-based tools written for this purpose, e.g.
I use Konqueror, and yes, it creates [[gu:??????]].
What version? I use 3.0.99 (haven't had time to recompile the latest), and it works. It just looks like boxes, but it has a category, so there must be something there.
phma
Tim Starling wrote:
If you don't have a system capable of this automatic conversion, you could try one of the many client-side and web-based tools written for this purpose, e.g.
The JavaScript one is fast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unicode_numeric_converter_script
Btw, bug#65: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65
Yann Forget pravi:
There are problems to make links to Wikipedias which use non Latin scripts on Wikipedias which are still not in UTF-8 (en:, sv:, da:, etc.). [...] Does someone know how to correct this now?
For Slovenian letters čšž (but it should also work for others unicode characters) we use converter from one of our contributors at http://members.lycos.co.uk/forumchars/main.html
While some alphabets (Japanese and Russian come to mind) get converted to HTML entities automaticaly, I noticed that Estonian and Slovenian use the same word (Tadžikistan), but [[et:Tadžikistan]] works in English Wikipedia, while [[sl:Tadžikistan]] does not. See thread at: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2004-February/002861.html
So converter is the way to go, at least for Slovenian.
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